Preserving Safety and Improving Yield Performances in Methanol Processes

The industrial best practice for methanol synthesis is the use a fixed-bed tubular reactor. The exothermic nature of methanol synthesis, the possibility to activate the methanation reaction (intensely exothermic) and the discrete nature of temperature acquisition throughout the reactor claim for novel technological solutions for process control and optimization. Specifically, the aim of this work is to monitor the hot-spot temperature and to manipulate it to improve the yield of methanol.